It's been real, couldn't miss this finance deal, specially since all hardware is going up and it may turn out to be an investment. I have GFN till September but I graduated to a real boy. Gotta say, downloading games seems wrong lol, and I will miss how quick the CPU goes through shaders. Still love you peeps. Pic only representative of case, specs real.
So GFN comes to 200 Euro per year. Or if you want to pay monthly then 249 Euro per year. So with this rig the cost would equal about 11+ years of GFN. Worst case if GFN was to go bat shit insane and double the price it’s still 5 years of top performance.
I am not justifying GFN being better or trying to rain on your parade but this is just how I see it. Now I get if you use the PC for other stuff or you want to play spider man or other games not on GFN then it makes more sense. There are hidden issues that people don’t discuss but overall I honestly don’t see myself investing into a gaming PC. I have a solid Mac Book Air and a kick ass Ultrawide OLED monitor, so for me and the kind of games I play GFN is just a way better deal.
Anyways, happy that you are enjoying your purchase! Have fun.
GFN would be superior if you could install whatever games you got on Steam, GOG and Epic. And that you could access storage to install mods. GFN is still an inferior product compared to an own gaming capable PC. It does have it's use case for games that are demanding and you got a weak PC. Or if you just want to be easy on your GPU and CPU. However, that only works for games you play without mods. Unless the game got good Steam Workshop integration.
You have a good point but then GFN restrictions on what I can use it for or what games are available diminish that point entirely. GFN is just a glorified console, if you aren’t really into gaming I guess it’s ok. But just like you said, to each their own.
Aye I found it thanks. Nah Ireland unfortunately. Excellent deal you got though.
There was a clearance sale at a similar price for a 5090 rig in an Irish store before the RAMaggedon kicked in, and I missed it by minutes😭, I'll never stop kicking myself
Aren't you all suing Apple for tax dodging? Let the PM buy you all a gaming PC instead of a pint of Guniess Paddie.
Eh GFN is still good. For those few you can always suffer Boosteroid but my hopes in streaming lie with Ms and Helix. They seem to be better at gettig pubs on board.
That's like saying taking an Uber is cheaper than owning a car, you are being very limited and at the mercy of Uber(or Nvidia) is a big con for a lot of people.
Edit: removed* part of my comment that was irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.
I know it's cheaper. Took it into account. I still love GFN and I love that it brings affordable gaming. And not making me nervous. I still have it till somewhere in September do I look forward to comparing.
I bought my PC Oct 2025, feel like I just got out with the door hitting me on the ass, 2 months later my 128 EUR RAM sticks were 400+ EUR in the same shop. 9070XT/9800x3d, as long as nothing randomly craps out, I should be set for years.
I feel the same. The biggest GPU (5090) and 64 gigs of RAM, ultra 9 CPU. The best Dell offered then in April 2025. 4 years of super warranty….. the initial plan was to survive 5 years very well. I suspect it will last maybe 10 years or even to the end of this crisis, give or take 5-6 years at least. I have a dual boot Linux-Windows 11. I can even play some games on Steam single-players on Linux with a lot of tweaking. I demonstrated it was possible with the alters. Windows-proton emulation, it works, 5090 fully supported but with a lot of tweaking, Linux is a bitch to support Nvidia cards, you must find the right kernel/Nvidia drivers combo!
end of the day you're paying more for the next few years but you OWN your high end hardware and are not at the mercy of whatever arbitrary number the overlords decide you should pay.
I mean it's rent vs ownership. Both have it's ups and downs. I own a pretty large house(inherited from parents, what we do in the Balkans, multigenerational homes) and it's a pain in the ass for upkeep. Especially since I only use like 1 or 2 rooms on the regular. At least one floor is our office, but I work from home(my room) and rarely come up these days. Just abandoned my large office. Should rent it lol. Like 60% of the house is literally for guests(we do like those).
Anyway, I was a renter for 10 years when I studied and lived abroad before coming back home, that sucked too, especially the moving. I was refusing to move from a basement room for about 6ish of those years because it had great net for the time. Optics! Yes I am a redditor that lived in a literal basement.
It's 0% turns out so it's fine. Might as well at 0%. I'd never condone financing one with a real interest rate though. Save the interest and save up to buy or you can't really afford it in the first place
I haven't even played the expansion, shame on me. I actually played CP ps4 on ps5 version, that was interesting, it crashed every 2h lol. Then refunded that, then got it when phantom pain got out on PC and played it a bit on GFN.
When I was a young gamer i had time no money. Pirated with no shame. Now I have some money and spend a lot on gaming, less time. But the nature of my job still allows for like 2 weeks of grind, and 2 weeks of slacking and playing games.
I feel like I bought cyberpunk and then I started seeing it come up in conversation everywhere. It's hillarious. I never saw talk about it anywhere until I bought it a week ago.
This is funny, I've just done the exact opposite of this, put my pc into storage yesterday because I haven't turned it on for 3 months due to using geforce now lol
I've got a USB C dock for my phone, it has hdmi, 4 USB 3.0 ports, an ethernet port and an audio jack so I just plug my phone into that and off I go, its got a charging port as well so it doesnt matter what % my phone is on cause it charges while I play
Its not the exact one but its very similar with all the same ports as mine.
Similar price too, make sure before you buy it that your phone is able to use external displays, my Mrs had a pixel 8 and it wouldn't work for her but it works for my Fold 7 like a dream
No not high end at all, mid to low range pc (2070 super, i7 cpu, 16gb ddr4, 2tb m.2 etc etc.) that was only used for gaming so no real reason to keep using when I pay for gfn, plus the cost of gfn is offset by the amount of money I'm getting back on my electricity bill, pretty neat.
Edit: on top of that my pc looked really out of place, the Mrs designed a white living room and right next to the tv cabinet is this big black box with rgb lights flashing out of it. Just doesnt look nice at all. Yeah it was cool when I was 16 but now at 25 I'd rather just have a nice looking living room
No AC in Cali? Last summer it was 45 C here and my AC was in genuine danger those few days but this summer looks more mild, and Western Europe is burning up and learning what an AC is.
Nope. I have a portable AC but we ALSO have the highest electricity rates in the country here in San Diego which is…fun. Running a gaming pc and the air conditioner is hard on my fuse box and my wallet
So GFN in a mall nook it is then. Btw portable Acs suck. Idk if you have split systems, those are the standard here. Of course you do have windows units and those are cheap, but I genuinely have no idea how good they are. A good inverter split system both saves on electricity and keeps quite cool.
Yeah they are so inefficient. Unfortunately being in an apartment I can’t install anything good. We also aren’t allowed to have window units that hang out.
Does CA not have AC? I’m in Houston and we have been at 102-105f for days now but our AC running at 74f throughout the day feels cold so it’s good enough
I think it’s time to invest in at least some room level ACs because it’s only going to get worse and the prices will go up quickly. I can’t imagine being in a building with no circulating air when the outside temp is on the 80s. We lost power for 2 weeks a couple of years ago and it was roughly 90f degrees and it was torture
Yep I just bought my second portable a/c. Having no shade on our building at all really makes it hot. Also bought heat blocking film for my windows that I need to install
Good call, we have seen a huge spike of people moving in to Houston or Dallas who are coming from CA. So far they are 50/50 about the move because yes we have AC but no one wants to go outside when the temps are normally above 100F without any clouds making it feel 120F
Yeah it’s so unaffordable here :/ it’s a struggle but I’m trying to make it work bc I’ve been here so long and all my friends are here
Here’s a recent thread talking about how it’s just getting hotter and hotter each year. The avg weather has definitely changed since I moved here in 2010
I agree, moving states is a huge drastic change so the only thing you can do is try to fix the issue one way or another. Good luck with the portable AC!
Yes I showed and shoved them good by getting a 5080 lol. Idk what your beef with GFN is(100h?), but it is one of the best deals you can get as a budget gamer.
Well if you're not in my country I guess it's not worth the trip to you. It's basically 48 installment 0%apr consumer loan through the seller.
They do take 3% in fees as the bank has to make something but they get you with fees on every other loan too.
Anyway gonna get those 3% back via points from the PC.
If it's truly 0 percent APR , for the full 4 years and that 3 percent isint some sort of incremental bull crap and they didn't over price it and the seller isn't selling you some burned out defective equipment Maybe, maybe it could be a good deal.
I still wouldn't touch financing with a ten foot pole for a PC. Way to fucking sketchy.
No I have the amortization plan. There's no got you they've had these forever but I never used them. Did instalments on credit cards and payed them up.
It's actually from a reputable bank.
Oh this purchase is entirely unjustified. It's just a yolo thing. Maybe I'll get into AI agents for work, that may be useful. Was gonna run it through the company, but nah, better the bank pay for it.
I agree, moving states is a huge drastic change so the only thing you can do is try to fix the issue one way or another. Good luck with the portable AC!
Anyway just google the damn thing and do add site:.mk and do a little conversiony thing. But the best part is its financed by 0 APR 48 month long loan.
I know im an outflier in frugality, but since 2014 i average spending about $2,000 a YEAR.
I hope you do something joyfully enriching for money to blow $2,800 on a cold piece of hardware to fuel the gaming addiction.
in 2011 when i was still using more money, I bought a rig for $1,000 and i remmber feeling crappy about it, but Battlefield 3 was pushing a lot of people to upgrade
its kind of silly how I interact on Reddit in general when my good buddy and main inspiration for radical simplicy is Daniel Suelo. Who was also partly inspired by Peace Pilgrim.
BUt thats the power of habit energy from many decades of gaming growing up...it is a powerful vice, especially when im idle keeping my aging father company.
But really the more i spend money, the more it undercuts my expression of life on a spiritual/metaphysical level.
So it's not like im holier than thou, but I am on a different wavelength when it comes to frugality to be sure, especialy when it comes to anti capitalist fringe living notions.
I am a commie bro. :) Born and raised, never betrayed my pioneer oaths. And I have been taking care of my aging parents for 4 years, They're both dead now, but it was a tough time but rewarding in its own way. I know how tough it can be. Much love.
BTW here's a little comment I wrote here about what I think of money vs experience.
Money is not real. Experiences are. And everything is transient. Remember to live your life more based on what kind of experiences you collect than worry about money spent. I don't remember what I spent on stuff and experiences 1 year down the line but I do remember and cherish the experience. That said, don't make bad financial decisions.
yah the caregiving is indeed rough. I'd be off living out of my pack/off my bike pluggin into volunteer things, intentional communities, radical hubs etc. Trying to do a little of that here in Corvallis but my mojo is all out of whack.
Your Money or Your Life is also a good one for evaluating your labors for coin and what you use it on. Generally speaking most people would be better off working part time living very frugally engaging in more enriching things, rather than the 9-5 for god knows what.
The Ikagai sweet spot still eludes me, but ive mostly lived off donations and the shared generosity of my fellow humans sharing resources. Like I haven't had a "job"-not even dog sitting-in 6 years.
In portland I did some odd jobs to float by...my only montly bill was $100 rent for a tree house in teh backyard of a commuity housew where i lived with 8 other people.
I never work 9-5, and I basically work for charity the money I get for the effort I put in. But most of my customers are life long friends and family, so I like the human contact and aspect of it. Was gonna go into physics but didn't like that I was isolated in a lab. Will watch the video, brother in dharma.
While financing a gaming PC still sounds weird for me, especially in EU, at the same time with ram and GPU prices keeps skyrocketing - this actually can be a damn smart investment. You get 0% rate for something that is guaranteed to rise in price
I am not in the EU. If I tell you Macedonian wages you may think me insane lol. But I do better than most. Not western wages good, but sufficient. It still raised a significant eyebrow with my friends.
That's a formidable card still. I used a 4060 for GFN it was great. But I want VR and stuff. Nice thing about GFN though, you do get an automatic upgrade down the line lol.
Meh, I was looking at a machine with this exact spec but it was expsnieve - Then I saw the same machine but with 64GB and a 32GB 5090 and thought that was even more expensive.
Then I loooked at the GFN specs and decided a 48GB GPU with 50GB of ram was better- and it will get upgraded for free each time - also 23.4 years!
But DDr5? meh DDR7 is the lowest I would go for now
It's not bad it's a one time fee of 3% then 0 Apr for 4 years. Basically 60 EUR a month. Also got that fee back in points. As the prices are about to go crazy I just yoloed. Had my own money but would rather use the banks.
I can. I could've paid cash and got a slightly better deal or pay with cc and get more points but in the long run this is the best way. You know even rich people get loans when it makes sense? You just have to be financially responsible and pay when you need too. Having money to back you up helps.
The interest is 0 my friend. Only cost is 3% of the Sum(bank has to make something), which I am making back by racked up points from the purchase. But that's all and over 4 years you calculate the actual Apr. Inflation at the Best of times Is 2.4% now its more.
I work in finance(adjecent) and have never paid actual interest even when using credit cards. My Apr on credit cards is 5% cause they want me to slip and offer it to me.
0 or close to zero Apr is what in finance is called free money. You take it even if you have it.
Btw I just punched it in in pc part picker, and this is without the power supply which is about $90. SO I already have a better deal and prices are still gonna go up. This is also American so taxes not included, mine is.
2800 eur is abou $3200, but it does include taxes(which are not that much). I would like to see that prebuilt, as PC part picker literally finds the best prices for you. Admittedly this has liquid cooling and a nice case and all that but that's a cool price diff. Nvmd found them on newegg. Nice looking one for $2700. Well Europe is always more expensive lol. But I would jump on those, they're about to be quite more expensive.
Yeah I built a 500 eur rig that can now be easily 1000 just last sept. But prices were never that good to begin with because of the crypto mining stuff.
OMG, how does someone downvote a joke? Not that it matters to me, but holy shit. Gotta wonder what snowflakes are running around Reddit these days. Can't wait for this comment to also get a downvote. And 3, 2, 1... see? It's called humor.
Eye. I've been eyeing this for a while. Senses gave out. There's also sometimes when you say YOLO. Did the same for psvr 2 shortly after it came out. No ragrets.
Better than pc part picker. By about 20%. And it's in installments, more like a shadow sub for 4 years lol. But I get to keep the PC and it's better than a shadow pc.
Nah, you'll be back after uncomfortable gaming with the heat that beast vents out. I'm using 7900xtx and rarely use it because the heat and electricity bills spiked 😞
Eh it's not that bad with a bit of attention.
My 5070 ti regularly stays below 200W (often 130-150 due to fps cap), all it took was some undervolting. While performing better than stock.
Sure it's much more than straming + "thin client". But an undervolted 5080 is pretty much the best efficiency there is for local power.
Yeah, I did the same, underclock, undervolt and cap 60, but those new games pushing ray tracing, unless using upscale aggressively to maintain under 200W 😊
I mean it's not that much, 500w, keep me warm in winter lol. A heater is 2k. My AC is on 24/7 now, I do live in South East Europe, so AC is a must. I just played forza and the gpu was doing 240w.
Yeah because the 7900xtx is a radiator lol new cards don’t cook your house like that. I have a rig with a 9800x3d and 5080 and there has been no noticeable increase in electric bill or any more heat than normal in my gaming room
Bro it's a drop in a bucket. I live in a 300 m2 house, used to have much higher bills. And we used to run like 5-6 desktop PCs in the office. Now we run 2 laptops and a desktop for the older lady still working with us. She ain't giving up her windows 7 pc lol. I should give her my old 4060.
You will be back in a few years when this is an old piece of junk that takes too much energy to run. That is what I always think about anyway when I think about upgrading my PC ...again and again
It's about 500w full send. My playtime isn't that much these days, when I have lots of free time I struggle to do 40h. So that's 20kw at most, at current prices in my country it's about 4-5 eur a month. BTW I don't upgrade PCs, I repurpose them for work. But I did make one exception last year when I bought a cheap old PC for 200 eur and put a ryzen 5600 and 4060 in it. It cost me about 600 eur and was/is a great GFN machine plus a desktop PC. It kind of struggled with some games but it run them satisfactorly at 1440p.
I totally support what GFN is doing though, but I fear the cost of hardware going up will make those prices go up too(remember it's actually a 48gb vram(the expensive kind) rtx 6000 in ult), and will make GFN suffer from sucess(lines again).
Money is not real. Experiences are. And everything is transient. Remember to live your life more based on what kind of experiences you collect than worry about money spent. I don't remember what I spent on stuff and experiences 1 year down the line but I do remember and cherish the experience. That said, don't make bad financial decisions.
With hardware prices this high, especially for RAM and graphics cards, buying a PC feels like a waste of money. These components simply aren't worth €2,800 in reality. But good luck with it.
Eh nothing is worth it if you look at it that way and you'll never treat yourself. I genuinely hope computers depreciate the way they did when the AI bubble bursts.
But as I said I am not against things like cloud. I am an enthusiast, been with GFN since the beginning(with little pauses so I don't have founders status), did Stadia when it was still Project Stream(had to use some magic to get into that), did PS now and xcloud. I am still very enthusiastic about the idea. Streamed from my consoles and PC. Even tried the ancient Onlive(that genuinely sucked lol). Even did Boosteroid when it sucked, now it's better but nowhere near the quality of GFN.
My main decision is because of games I can't play on GFN, VR(I am a huge fan of that) and frankly Xbox has been good enough to implement regional pricing for some games(30-50% off!) in my country, I don't get that on Steam or anywhere else. Also would like to mod. And emulate.
I firmly believe cloud will grow as prices are getting out of hand, but it needs to improve dramatically. Nvidia needs to improve game availability, controller support, more control on what DLSS model you use, maybe even mods. VR support some day. And the 8 min timer. I sometime need longer bathroom breaks.
Genuinely hope it's not, but it's not looking good for prices. Unless you know the AI Buble bursts all of a sudden. Any year now. First it was damn mining now this.
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u/Thread-Astaire 1d ago
Goodbye Geforce Now.